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Researcher · Occidental College · United States

Donald R. Prothero

Donald R. Prothero publishes mostly in Paleontology, Atmospheric Science and Ecology, on topics such as Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

ORCID 0000-0001-8015-1092 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,696,131
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#786,648
of 1,627,098
Works
433
Citations
4.9k
Citations per work
11.3
h-index
36
i10-index 85Top 6.4% in Paleontology
Donald R. Prothero

What does Donald R. Prothero research?

Donald R. Prothero's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (31%), Environmental Science (9%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (6%).

Everything else: 196 works · 45.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 174 works · 40.1% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 134 works · 31.0% of their workPaleontology: 88 works · 20.4% of their workAtmospheric Science: 46 works · 10.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 39 works · 9.1% of their workEcology: 39 works · 9.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 38 works · 8.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 25 works · 5.7% of their workAnthropology: 25 works · 5.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 13 works · 3.1% of their workArcheology: 13 works · 3.1% of their workLife Sciences: 26 works · 5.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 26 works · 5.9% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 26 works · 5.9% of their workTHEIR WORKDonald R.Prothero433works
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences40%Social Sciences9%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
  1. Everything else19645.2%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences13431.0%
    2. Environmental Science399.1%
    1. Social Sciences255.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities133.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences265.9%
  1. 1Paleontology20% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science11% of their works
  3. 3Ecology9% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6% of their works
  5. 5Anthropology6% of their works
  6. 6Archeology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Donald R. Prothero's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Mammal Evolution, Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis, Climate Change, Paleoclimatology, Paleoproductivity, Paleoredox, Hominin Genetics and Paleolithic Archaeology.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Mammal Evolution1191 topic
  2. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis1191 topic
  3. Climate Change1021 topic
  4. Paleoclimatology1021 topic
  5. Paleoproductivity431 topic
  6. Paleoredox431 topic
  7. Hominin Genetics421 topic
  8. Paleolithic Archaeology421 topic
  9. Animal Movement241 topic
  10. Dinosaur241 topic
  11. Evolution241 topic
  12. Occupancy Rates241 topic
  13. Geochronology181 topic
  14. Zircon181 topic
  15. Geomagnetic Field171 topic
  16. Magnetosome Formation171 topic

Where does Donald R. Prothero work?

Donald R. Prothero's main affiliation in the publication record is Occidental College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Donald R. Prothero have?

OpenAlex counts 433 works and 4,904 citations for Donald R. Prothero, an h-index of 36, ranking #2,696,131 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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